ONS · offence category: 19F Rape of a male aged 16 or over

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 19F Rape of a male aged 16 or over

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

14,623offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 19F Rape of a male aged 16 or over totalled 14,623 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 29.0% (3,285) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Rape of a male aged 16 or over [note 28]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 4093 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour02k4k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2005: 444 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 438 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 413 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 332 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 317 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 368 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 387 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 387 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 413 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 661 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 1,026 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 1,299 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,641 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 2,470 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 2,801 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 2,656 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 2,533 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 3,348 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 3,409 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 3,445 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 3,676 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 4,093 offences · published 23 July 2026

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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category